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TUCSON, FRIDAY. JUNE $. 1975 PAGE FOURTEEN SECTION A THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Am in Offers Heln Calif. Gov. Brown Signs Historic Farm Labor Law In Kidnap Talks NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Ugandan President Idi Amin has said he is ready to play an active role in obtaining the release of American and Dutch students kidnaped by Marxist guerrillas from Tanzania to Zaire 17 days ago.

Amin said the rebels have warned Peter Steiner, a Univer- Illegal Aliens Removed From Banuelos Plant GARDENA, Calif. (AP) -Thirty illegal aliens were headed back to Mexico and El Salvador yesterday after their arrest at a food plant owned by former U.S. Treasurer Romana A. Banuelos, a spokesman said. The 16 men and 14 women were picked up in a raid Wednesday at Ramona's Mexican Food Products, in this Los Angeles suburb, said Joseph Surreck, district director of the U.S.

Immigration and Naturalization Service here. Surreck said agents acted on information from an unidentified tipster. Mrs. Banuelos served as treasurer in the Nixon administration from 1971 to 1974. A raid on the woman's food plant several years ago netted 36 aliens, authorities have said.

Earlier this year, company officials agreed in a Superior Court action to pay 10,000 in overtime wages to truck drivers after the Labor Dept. brought a suit- only press gallery, Brown flashed a smile. But he was serious throughout most of the ceremonies. The bill takes effect Aug. 28, in time to allow elections in two key fall harvests the Salinas Valley lettuce crop and the San Joaquin Valley table grape crop.

Chavez has praised the Brown bill as "the best labor law ever." He has said he will demand elections under the new law early in September at Gallo. Chavez said that could lead to the end of his nationwide Gallo wines boycott. "Whatever tactics may have been employed in the past, what is required now is that the unions must win over the hearts and minds of farm workers," Brown said. Brown said he believes the federal government should follow California's lead and enact a national farm labor law. The Brown bill was endorsed by all major elements of California agriculture.

But it only shifts the farm labor conflict to a new, and presumably more peaceful arena, with state controls. It was clear that the battling in California agriculture is not over. The new agriculture law outlaws recogni-tional strikes, but it permits secondary boycotts by unions which that won recognitional elections. It also permits harvest-time strikes. SACRAMENTO (AP) Gov, Edmund Brown Jr.

signed his landmark farm labor bill yesterday and said, "This is the beginning, not the end." The Democratic governor said he hopes state-supervised, secret-ballot labor elections will bring stability and peace to California agriculture after a decade of violence. But the 37-year-old governor cautioned Californians not to expect an instant solution to California's farm labor troubles. "We shouldn't overstate what is going on here today. This is the beginning, not the end," Brown told a packed press gallery at the bill-signing ceremony. "The inevitable struggles that are going to occur and must occur will go on in an equitable way.

Let's not pat ourselves on the back today. With a certain degree of humility, let's look to the future," Brown said. The bill-signing marked the most spectacular achievement of Brown's five-month administration. Brown's negotiations on the compromise bill eventually won him endorsements of major growers and California's two warring farm labor unions Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers and the Teamsters Union. As he signed the landmark bill before television camera crews and the standing-room- 'The Beginning' California Gov.

Edmund C. Brown center, talks with reporters in after signing the landmark farm labor bill. Lt. Gov. Mervyn Dymally, left, and Assemblyman Richard Alatorre flank Brown.

Alatorre was one of the law's chief (AP Wirephoto) Fear Generated Ballot Remedy DELANO, Calif. (AP) There's been fighting in Califor. nia's fields for nearly half a century. And it was a fear of continued and perhaps intensified violence that helped spur legislation to provide the one remedy all sides contended might bring peace secret-ballot union elec then now 0a tained in Tanzania. The rebels set a mid-July deadline.

They hold Carrie Jane Hunter and Kenneth Stephen Smith, both Stanford University students, and Eli-mie van Zinnicq Bergmann of the Netherlands. Tanzania rejected the demands and refused to accept any responsibility to work for the hostages' release. It denied the guerrillas' contention that the revolutionary party's secretary-general, Gabriel Yumbu, was in a Tanzanian jail. American scources said Steiner, a visiting professor at the University of Nairobi who is acquainted with some of the students, went to Bujumbura, lake side capital of Burundi, with the intention of contacting the rebels in Zaire. The Americans said Steiner had official U.S.

assistance but was acting on behalf of Stanford and the hostages' parents. white sity of Michigan economics professor who volunteered to negotiate the release, that they do not want to deal with with. Amin described Steiner as a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency employe who "will never go back to the United States" if he tries to contact the Marxists. Amin's comments were reported in an edition of the Voice of Uganda that reached Nairobi yesterday.

The government newspaper quoted a telegram it said Amin had sent to President Julius Nye-rere of Tanzania. Members of the Zaire-based Popular Revolutionary Party kidnaped four students May 19 from a Tanzanian baboon research camp on Lake Tanganyika and took them to the jungles of eastern Zaire. One American student was released to carry ransom demands for $500,000, large amounts of arms and ammunition and the freedom of about of Michigan economics SHOP pClflS tricot fast way White only. tions. The California Legislature even held a technical special session so the historic farm labor rules would be considered an "emergency," thus allowing them to take effect before the fall harvest instead of next January when most measures become law.

The underlying pressure throughout the efforts to draft and enact a bill was the bitter dispute of the past decade between the giant Teamsters Union and the AFL-CIO United Farm Workers of America headed by Cesar Chavez. Their confrontations since the mid-1960s have resulted in accusations of shootings, beatings, arson and assorted vandalism. But farm labor strife didn't begin when Chavez first tried to organize table grape pickers in Delano in 1965. Historians report that Mexican cantaloupe pickers in Southern California's Imperial Valley struck as long ago as 1928 for higher wages and elimation of abuses under the contract labor system. Many were thrown in jail, but most charges were dismissed and the pickers returned to work.

Eight thousand lettuce pickers struck in 1934, causing "serious rioting and bloodshed," according to one account. Nearly 50 farm labor strikes were reported in California during 1933 and 1934, at the height of the Depression when industrial unions still sought their own legal recognition. Many claim that failure to include farm labor in the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 contributed to present struggles. Until California's new law, there were no rules to govern agricultural organizing. "Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's epic tale of the "Okie" migration to California to escape the Dust Bowl, dramatized hostility and violence during a strike at a Tulare County peach orchard.

A 1941 citrus strike in Ventura County drew the attention of AFL Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, now president of the merged AFL-CIO and a Chavez supporter. The lemon pickers, Meany wrote, "lead lives that have been likened to slaves. Their wages are miserable. They live in squalid shacks and are exploited at the company store. After deductions were made from one worker's paycheck, all he had was 18 cents." Chavez claimed things weren't much better by 1965, with minimum wages reportedly less than $1.50 an hour.

Now the workers draw about $2.60. After five years of increasingly strident strikes and a boycott that achieved national attention for "La Causa" (The Cause), it seemed that the issue might be resolved in 1970 when table grape growers here and in the Coachella Valley signed contracts with Chavez. But the Teamsters stripped Chavez of those contracts when they expired three years later. teamsters moved amid charges by growers that the UFW mismanaged its hiring halls by failing to provide enough workers when needed. Bitterness and violence reached a new peak that summer of 1973.

Thousands of UFW members and supporters descended on the San Joaquin Valley to picket struck ranches, and 3,500 were jailed on charges of violating picketing restrictions. As he often had in earlier years, Chevez charged police with harassment and the Teamsters and growers with hiring armed "goons" to beat his pickets. Three UFW pickets were wounded in sporadic shootings. UFW critics contended that, despite Chavez' commitment to nonviolence, his pickets often threw rocks at workers and spread sharp, curved hooks onto roadways to flatten tires. After a longtime UFW member was shot to death at a picket line in August 1973, Chavez abruptly ended the table grape strike and turned to his favorite weapon, the boycott.

But isolated incidents of vandalism continued last summer, including several firebombings that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. Four UFW members were indicted in Fresno County for burning down a packing shed during a melon strike. They latter pleaded quilty, under a plea-bargaining agreement, to possessing firebomb materials. Against this long ground of tension among fiercely independent growers and bitterly contesting unions, no one can yet be sure whether California's law will end the fighting or merely foment violent confrontations anew as the unions seek supremacy through the ballot box. But Gov.

Edmund Brown architect of the historic compromise bill, was optimistic when it passed the Legislature. "It's going to bring about a stability we've never had before," he predicted. TriendsOfZumwalt' Planned, He Says WASHINGTON (AP) i Retired Adm. Elmo R. wait former chief of naval operations, said yesterday that there will soon be a "Friends of Zumwalt" organization named to advance his interest In running for the U.S.

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